Chapter 521 – 42. Dezac Empire – General Escalor Destrov (4)

Again. Again. Again.

In a tunnel illuminated only by a few dim lights.

With the distinctly distinct sound of her shoes, she stared into the pitch black darkness.

‘Interesting.’

A battle in a tunnel to hunt monsters.

It was her first time doing something like this, so she was very excited and excited.

Those who followed the general did not look good, though.

“Hey, Your Excellency, General. Please adjust the speed…”

“Huh? Is it too fast?”

“We’re fine, but the wizards are slowly falling behind.”

“Hmm. Then it can’t be helped.”

The underground tunnel was so rough that if you didn’t know where the two ends were connected, you would believe it was formed naturally. Thanks to this, not only strong knights and soldiers, but wizards were bound to get tired quickly.

“Thank you for your consideration.”

“You’re saying something.”

General Escalor slowed down when he said that.

Certainly, even though I felt myself, the anticipation made me walk faster.

‘I mean, I still have a child-like side.’

He is a general with a small smile, thinking of himself as immature.

But the mistake caused by expectations wasn’t just speeded up steps.

“Turn it off…”

The leader of one of the most prestigious knights in the Empire, following closely behind Escalor, groaned. It was too difficult to follow because the general had adjusted the pace.

Not because of speed, of course. What makes the leader of the knights who have reached the level of a master difficult is none other than the implicit momentum and mana pressure emitted by Escalor. But he couldn’t even speak.

‘I’m a master too, so is there such a difference…?’

The knight commander couldn’t believe it.

What kind of monster is the great general?

I was jealous at one time, but now that feeling has completely disappeared.

I feel like this is unavoidable.

There was such a gap between them.

‘But…. I’m sure it’s possible. If there is a general, conquering the continent is not a dream.’

I think I know why the top of her empire, her trusts her so much.

Unbelievable power.

With this level, he would be able to defeat not only the warriors and demons, but even dragons.

‘… Dragon. Okay’

The knight commander suddenly recalled an old memory from his head.

It was before he even became the leader.

While visiting the United Republic for an official matter, he encountered the Green Dragon, who was no different from the leader of the United Republic. The sense of intimidation and helplessness that he had no choice but to realize that he was a prey despite his human form. The general was similar to that.

“… Khehehe.”

The moment he laughed, the general stopped his steps and said quietly.

“Stop.”

“…!”

Only then did the captain of the knights, who returned to reality, raise his fist and stop the march of those following behind him.

The sight of close to thousands of troops stopping all at once was grandiose, but they were mobilizing magic to silence the sound, and they were advancing very carefully. Moreover, the atmosphere was somewhat stagnant as the soldiers, knights, and wizards were full of tension.

The captain of the knights who had stopped them with a fist, in fact the commander of this subjugation operation, looked back and clicked his tongue inside him.

‘Tsk. It’s not a scam. That’s why I can’t give a one-day speech here.’

I was worried that the monsters might wake up, so I reduced the noise with magic, but if I gave a speech that would resonate until the end, wouldn’t the monsters wake up before fraud?

‘… Huh? Come to think of it, even though there is magic, why are the general’s footsteps….’

Could it be that he was vaguely out of the scope of magic?

It’s funny if that’s really true.

No matter how nervous you are, no one notices that fact.

‘Flaw. Now even that seems like the power of the general.’

Maybe you don’t know

It might not be out of range, but because of her magic resistance her.

‘Hehe, that’s a ridiculous idea.’

The knight commander’s thoughts were quickly broken by Escalor.

“About 500m away. I can see monsters. There are definitely a lot of them.”

“…”

How did it happen?

Even though it seems to be a quiet repetitive self-talk, the voice pierces through the soundproofing magic and echoes all the way to the end of the procession. Even so, the monsters didn’t feel the slightest fuss. A truly mysterious situation.

“The estimated number of Chimera monsters is about 3,000. There will be some errors, but there won’t be a big difference.”

The general turned around.

“And we are 2,000. A smaller number than monsters.”

The tunnel is long and narrow.

If too many people gather together, they may collapse during a battle.

I have yet to find another exit beyond the cavity where the monsters are congregating.

So, the number selected is 2,000.

For this reason, knights and wizards made up half of the punitive force rather than military soldiers.

“You must have heard of the power of the Chimera monster.”

After a brief pause, Escalor laughed.

“But I don’t know what that has to do with it. One of them injured the party of warriors? The Paladins of the Goddess Church struggled? It shook the city of the Third Alliance? So what do you mean? We are soldiers of the Dezac Empire, and knights. Oh, sorcerers. You guys are unquestionably strong…”

As the 2,000 troops looked at the general, she declared.

“You have me.”

After saying that, Escalor turned and looked at the monsters.

Her Knight Commander, who was watching her right beside her, cried out in a loud voice involuntarily at the ferocious spirit of her that began to flow from the body of her general.

“All ready for battle—!!”

Bang!!

At the same time, Escalor’s shadow shot forward like a darting arrow.

In the blink of an eye, the general jumped 500m and swung his sword.

Kwaaaaa!!

“…… ?!”

I couldn’t believe that I had swung a sword.

Dust bursting out of the cavity was scattered through the tunnels that led to the 2,000 troops.

It was stuffy and dirty, but they were laughing.

General Escalor Destrov’s mighty power boosted everyone’s morale.

“Return-!!”

Surprise operations and careful battles that were previously devised are nowhere to be found.

The subjugation party, burning with fighting spirit, rushed in unison and collided with the Chimera monster.

The outcome was going to be pretty obvious.

“But Valdes.”

“Yes?”

“Isn’t 3,000 Chimera monsters almost everything left?”

Yuri turns her head to ask a question that suddenly popped up.

She wasn’t wrong.

Including the dungeon where Robert was sleeping, the number of chimera monsters found in various places based on what the demon intelligence unit heard from him was about 5,000. Considering that each one of them is more than a knight, it is a tremendous amount of power.

However, about 2,000 had already been consumed by the raid of the warrior party and the work of the three-pronged alliance.

The remaining ones were moved to the vicinity of the islands with difficulty, but Valdes abandoned them.

The heroine didn’t quite understand that.

“Only one thousand of them can be used here, and the rest can be used later in the war.”

Valdez is a person who cares about his subordinates as well as people in general.

So, didn’t even this academy raid go in the direction of minimizing human damage?

To him, the Chimera monster is the best way to reduce the damage of his subordinates his in the future war.

Yuri wondered why Valdes, knowing that, had used up all the Chimera monsters.

“Well, you don’t think there will be more here if it’s around 3,000.”

“Um, well, it’s not like that.”

Too few and it’s easy to assume there are more chimeras elsewhere.

Actually, even 3,000 is ambiguous.

“And I haven’t used all the Chimera monsters.”

“Yes?”

“The monsters I wrote this time. Aren’t they pretty weak?”

“Uh…”

Yuri’s pupils shake rapidly.

At the time of the raid, the warrior party was also taking classes at the academy.

I knew that an incident would happen, but I was surprised when I listened to the lecture because I did not know when it would start. Thanks to this, more natural acting came out and I was able to fool the eyes of the intelligence department, but it was a bit unfair.

“… That’s right. There are things that made us stronger, but even taking that into consideration, we were weak.”

She muttered a little, and put on a rejected expression.

Her eyes her as Valdes’ woman for nearly a year taught her the correct answer.

“They are made here.”

“That’s correct.”

Robert was a wizard to the core.

He didn’t want to tell anyone, but he dared to leave all the research results and experiment diaries in the dungeon.

Thanks to this, Valdes and the demons were able to absorb his research his intact.

Just as the homunculus research was used by the demon king to create another body, so is the chimera research. This is also being remodeled and produced by demons in a way that lowers the specs and speeds up mass production.

“Perhaps Vilma noticed right away. He helped organize the data.”

“Wow, the real Valdez all have plans…”

Valdez shrugged at Yuri’s praise.

“It’s all thanks to Robert, no Roberta.”

In addition to various research results, valuable power, and even a scapegoat that will attract the attention of the empire and the emperor.

She was truly a great mage who gave generously.

His dungeon her, which would have been very difficult to deal with if discovered late, is being used very usefully thanks to early discovery.

“Well, apart from that, I think the damage is insignificant.”

“Yes?”

“Sasha said that earlier. The general has joined the subjugation party.”

“Ah…”

A monster I don’t know where it came from.

I’ve never seen Yuri in person, but Sasha told me about it.

A strong man who makes you break out in a cold sweat just by meeting him.

“I see. To think that such a final boss is hiding in the empire.”

“Hmm. I mean. I don’t understand. How could you be quiet during the war?”

This was the part that Valdez did not understand the most about Escalor.

When the war with the demons was in full swing, I hadn’t heard any rumors about Escalor.

Given her age her, now estimated to be in her late 30’s or early 40’s, it’s ridiculous that she was demure in her 20’s when she would have been much more feisty given her fighting mania. Even if she ran away from home, it is clear that she would have participated in the war.

However, there are no rumors of a female warrior similar to her, let alone the name Escalor.

‘Especially the family of Count Destrov is very questionable. Clearly here….’

According to the report of the intelligence unit at the time, the family itself had also declined and was stamped out by the emperor.

Even if they survived thanks to the production of an outstanding person named Escalor, then where did the rest of the staff go? Obviously, it is normal for the Destrov family to have more than a dozen family members besides her. But now there is no one.

‘The strangest thing is… It must be me.’

A fact that was known thanks to a thorough investigation into the count’s family or higher.

That’s just not the right age.

Even if you put Escalor’s age at 40, she’s halfway between her middle her.

If so, whose child is she?

‘If she thinks normally, she must have been the illegitimate daughter of an old family head. But if….’

Yuri, who saw Valdez’s increasingly serious expression of her, woke him up.

“Valdes.”

“…Well?”

“Why so serious.”

“… I was thinking about it for a second.”

“If there’s anything that bothers you, just tell me. I’ll help.”

“Yeah. Thank you.”

“Hehe, no.”

Yuri smiled like a fool and turned his head to check the time.

“By the way, didn’t you say you were going to the Magic Tower?”

“Oops. That’s right.”

As soon as he looked at his watch his, Valdez got out of bed.

The discovery of Robert’s survival, which was hidden, and Valdez’s conspiracy through it.

Thanks to that, the Magic Tower is in a very confused state.

In particular, Natalie, the lord of the Mage Tower, who had a traitor as her teacher her, and her granddaughter Adele, who had her grandfather her as her grandfather her.

There might be some guys, but that’s not his business his.

“This is a great opportunity right now.”

He put on a sinister smile and got ready to go out.

And he moved toward the verdant wizard who would be the first target of capture in the empire.